The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

JOHN CRIMMINs, of Brownsville, Oak, cele-
brated Easter by eating fourteen hardboiled
eggs He was found dead in his bed the next
morning.
AN English surgeon says that people who use
rocking chairs the most get deaf the soonest.
Rocking also hurts the eyes and makes people
near sighted.
THE appearance of the Star OK Bethlehem is
looked for by astronomers this year for the
sixth time since the birth of Christ 1t is so
brilliant as to appear by day as well as by night,
and is watched for directly north of the North
Star
A cnEpvtovs MERCHANT in Melbourne, Austria
lia, recently allowed himself to be swindled out
of a large sum Of money by pious fraud who
called himself Il prophet. The merchant en-
tered the transaction IN his books as Prophet
and Loss"
THE Anarchists who were recently sentenced
to various terms of imprisonment by the Aus
TRAN government will each have to fast one day
every month, and one of them will have to
spend the anniversary of his proposed crime in
dark cell.
THE British residents of Los Angeles, Cal.
intend TO celebrate the Queens Jubilee in good
style, and the Womens Club of that city will
join with them in the celebration by raising
enough money to take 100 English girls to Los
Angeles for domestic service.
EVERY ONE joins with Germany and England
in wishing long life to the Kaiser and the Queen;
| but the longest lives viii end; and when those
two do if the Nihilists shall not yet have got in
| their work the greatest three powers of Europe
| will be reigned over by brothers-in-law.
A TIRED LOOKING CHAP. who was arraigned
before Justice Duffy in New York the other day,
claimed TO he a carpenter, and the Justice,
| doubling his story, offered to let him 20 ii he
| named the tools used III the trade. This the
prisoner did and was promptly discharged.
A RESIDENT Of Manville, r. l., has a silk hat
which ne bought several years ago to wear at
| the funeral OF his wife. He has worn it three
times since teen and each time at the funeral of
| a wife having buried four of them. The hat is
almost as good as new, but a little out of style.
! Two WEEKS ago at Hines Post Office, near
! Blnnister, / 4, the snow was twenty-five feet
deep. The inhabitants had dug tunnels from
| house to house. When it commenced to snow a
| Urge number Of cattle were lying down by
| stack. They were completely covered up, and
| it is thought by the owners that they are still
| there eating hay.
| FERDINAND WARD has been taken out of the
laundry at Sing Sing prison and sent back to
kicking the printing press in the State printing
| office, where the necessary printing is done for
| the prison. He said he liked being a printer
| better than a washer-woman.n The three
! doodle Aldermen. ~ Jaehene, ONeill and Nc
| Quade are getting fat.
THE buhach plantation, Just few miles west
desert and to-day it is the garden spot of MERGED
county The plantation has the most thorough
system of irrigation of any place in the county.
1t is now employing thirty men, who are en-
gagged in cutivating the plant from which bu-
bach Is manufactured.
GEORGE MARION, farmer of Rensselaer,, Ind,
found his dog barking at a snake near hole in
the ground. He dug down and found bushels of
snakes stiff with cold When all were killed
and classified it was found that there were 40
in all, lib OF which were blue racers and 81 were
bull snakes. No other kinds of serpents were
found in the den. Soon after another nest of 81
snakes was found.
- GEN w. w. AvERILL who was dashing and
gallant commander in the Federal army during
the late war; has accepted an invitation to
participate in the ceremonies of Confederate
Decoration day at Stanton, Va, on June 8. In
accepting the invitation Gen. Averill says he sis
filled with the liveliest anticipations of the
pleasure he viii experience in meeting some of
those gallant soldiers among the survivors
whose names and deeds are indelibly impressed
on his memory"
LINEMEN repairing the telephone wires between
Marysville and Sacramento found that half a
mile of wire was missing, having been washed
away by high water in Bear river Knowing
that the line was needed constantly and not
having enough wire with them, the lineEien
dragged the ends of the wire to a barbed wire
fence near the railroad track and attached them
to 1t. Upon returning to MGrysville they asked
the employees at the bank how the wire was
working, and they said it was doing finely Their
messages had been passing over a half mile of
barbed wire fence.
YOUNG FARMER named Andrews, of Rails
county, Mo-, while driving into town one morn
ing saw an attractive young woman feeding the
chickens in the barnyard. She waved her hand
at him and he bowed in return A storekeeper
III town told him the maiden's name and rode
ia n Tn .affa in
PRODUCTION. The ardent young wooer stayed to
supper, and before he left mad popped the ques
ton and been accepted All this took place on
Thursday, and on Saturday the couple were
married. The storekeeper acted best man
and was persuaded by the happy groom to ac
cept blooded cow as compensation for his
sklllful matrimonial negotiations.
LEsREs, the once famous barber of Paris is
dead. His shop was once the matutinal resort
of the literary and artistic celebrities of the day.
as well as a local landmark for foreign tourists
and prOvincials. The interior of the shop was
not only decorated with sketches by well known
artists, but was also embellished with scraps of
prose and verse, contributed by some of the
leading ltterateuFS of France. 1t was LespeS who
invented the famous Portugal decoction with
which French coiffeUrS anoint the heads of their
customers and he actually received on this ac-
count the ribanO and cross of the Order of Christ
from Dom LUZ of Portugal. He was prosecuted
however for wearing the rband, as it was like
that of the Legion of Honor.
A REaAREABLE INSTANCE of an invalid recov-
cry through faith is reported from Puebla coun-
ty O. Miss Sarah FoVble, the daughter of IA
respectable farmer living just out of Sonora,
had been bedridden for thrty-one years because
OF an affection of the spine. and for nearly a
year she had been speeches. and blind. She is
now entirely cured. Miss Fouble says that
about the middle Of March she went into a
trance, during which an angel appeared to her
and babe hcr pray for her recovery on awall.
ing from the trance she prayed long and earn
catly and fell quietly asleep. In the morning
she walked down 10 breakfast to the gr,aI
establishment of the family aud has not known
a day of illness since. She now spends the
greater part of her time in singing and pray
ing.
TIE late John T. Raymond and his wife we're
once engaged TO open the season at Lafayette
Ind. and a company from Chicago was to sup
port them. When the night cane the company
was not there, nut the house was crowded and
the manager was nearly crazy Something
must lie done, but there was no one to do il hut
Dir. aud Mrs. Raymond II went out before the
curtain, said that genial comediaa telling of II
~ after years, and frankly told The audience
what Wiu t'la matter. They were good-naturad
ara cNpr'S'c1 Willingness 10 put up with any.
thing. What do you thnk we did: Boys, my
VIE aul played ilvc farCes for them that
night, without proper scenery, costumes. rebear.
S2!s or GnytlGIG else The performance began
at O'Clock aAd lasted TIL after O'Clock |
never acted, | never viii act better IN my life
than lI thar uuhf md nv ,stf. a., ,,.as a.,